Window-shade exhibitor



(No Model.)

1?. M. TINKHAM.

WINDOW SHADE EXHIBITOR.

V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

FRANCIS M. TINKHAM, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WINDOW-SHADE EXHIBITOR.

' SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 256,412, dated April 11, 1882.

' Application filed February 7, 1882. '(No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS M. TINKHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Window-Shade Exhibitors, of which the following is a specification. 1

This invention relates to the details of the construction of an improved device for use by dealers in window-shades and analogous articles, upon which maybe hungin a manner convenient for rolling and unrolling them a great variety of window-shades, the object be ing to provide an improved device upon which the various samples and styles of said shades may be grouped together, and be so hung thereon that each one may be properly exhibited for the inspection of purchasers, or so that many shades may be at the same time exhibited, and in such a way that one shall not interfere with the other.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 illustrates a window-shade exhibitor constructed according to my invention, on which are shown several shades properly suspended as when in use.

tion from said bar a upward, and two of said inclined posts as w having their upper ends Fig. 2 is a like view to Fig. 1, but showingthe exhibitor joined by a cross-bar, as shown, and one of 40 above the other, as shown. Thus the vertical line of each shade as it hangs down is in front of or in the rear of those aboveand below it, and each shade can be drawn down and rolled up without interfering with its neighbor; or several shades may be unrolled for exhibition at the same time upon both sides of the frame,

and the latter being rotated upon the stand 1),.

all of the shades thereon are fully and conveniently shown. .1

In practice the top and ends of the frame a are covered with any suitable material, to protect the shades which are hung thereon from dust and to impart to the frame a more finished appearance.

What I claim as my invention is- The within-described window-shade exhibitor, consisting of the frame at, having two outwardly-inclined shade-supporting posts, as a, upon opposite sides thereof, the tie-rods 'U o, the horizontal bar a, and the stand I), to which said frame is pi votally attached, combined and operating substantially as set forth.

FRANCIS M. TINKH AM Witnesses:

J. D. GARFIELD, WM. H. QHAPIN. 

